Hi all! Just a brief note from a lurker regarding something half on-topic which might be of interest: Here's a site which ranks 'OECD:Share of Frequent short-text (particularly comics) readers (15 years old) [2000]' for a range of countries. http://web.hhs.se/personal/Suzuki/o-English/ed12.html Regards Tarjei Kidd Olsen